Quotable Notables

"This is my school, and the clubs are a disgusting thing at my school." --Lisa Schkolnick, the senior who formally charged that the club illegally discriminate against women students (12/16/87).

"I am not trying to lay something on them. I prefer the backdoor approach. the paintings are meant to say, 'Welcome, Welcome.' Your enjoyment is my reward. It's something as mundane and stupid as all that." --Tom the Friendly Neighborhood Artist, explaining his artwork bolted on the back of parking sings throughout Cambridge. (10/21/87)

"My bet is that they are looking to buy prestige in Boston." --A sample from an internal K-School memo describing a Texas couple who were offered University "officer status" by the school in exchange for a $250,000 donation. (11/12/87)

"We are in a reasonably good position for a major downturn, but there will still be an absolute reduction in the wealth of Harvard," --Walter M. Cabot '55, head of Harvard Management Co., after October's stock market crash. (10/20/87)

"Everyone wants to know why I am running," --David J. Sullivan, a 26-year-old auditor of retirement funds and candidate for the Cambridge city council, at a debate. (10/22/87)

"It would be like a pet, and to take your pet and have it killed is not a comfortable thing for me," --Hannah Gittleman '88 speaking about her unusual course assignment in VES 30, "Fundamentals of Sculpture." (11/16/87)

"Far too often students seem content to compile information from various sources, to stick it together in a paper, to make some abvious statements about that evidence, and to believe they have done a good piece of writing." --From Expos Director Richard Marius's Report on Undergraduate Writing. (10/7/1987)

"I meant it in a sarcastic way. They are there to check students, they are not students of higher education. If [people] took offense, I'm sorry." --Quicy House Master Michael Shinagel, explaining his comment at a private gathering that the house had restrictive interhouse dining policies because the dining hall workers" can't do higher order math." (10/30/87)